蠆
chài

a kind of scorpion

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC
Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttrhæjHmə-r̥ ˤa[t]-sscorpion
Zhengzhangm̥ʰraːds
Unicodetjài

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

虿 chài a kind of scorpion Simplified

Components

万
万 Sound component
wàn ten thousand
虫
虫 Meaning component
chóng bug, insect

insect

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode